tenfold

English

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    Cardinal: ten
    Ordinal: tenth
    Latinate ordinal: denary
    Adverbial: ten times
    Multiplier: tenfold
    Latinate multiplier: decuple
    Collective: tensome
    Multiuse collective: decuplet
    Greek or Latinate collective: decad, decade
    Metric collective prefix: deca-
    Greek collective prefix: deca-
    Latinate collective prefix: deca-
    Fractional: tenth
    Metric fractional prefix: deci-
    Elemental: decuplet
    Greek prefix: decato-
    Number of musicians: decet
    Number of years: decade, decennium

Etymology

From Middle English tenfold, tenfolde, from Old English tīenfeald. Equivalent to ten + -fold.

Adjective

tenfold (not comparable)

  1. containing ten parts
  2. ten times as much

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Adverb

tenfold (not comparable)

  1. by ten times as much
    • 1896, William Allen Sylvester, Modern Carpentry and Building, page 142, "But, since we have increased the original value of 26 tenfold its original value, we must increase the original result tenfold : ten times 2 equal 20, the required answer."

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Verb

tenfold (third-person singular simple present tenfolds, present participle tenfolding, simple past and past participle tenfolded)

  1. to increase to ten times as much; to multiply by ten

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